Hunting hounds
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
dogs · fawning breed of house-bred whelps · hounds · hounds of huntsmen
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Odyssey
The hunting dogs that track the boar during Odysseus's youthful hunting expedition on Parnassus.
When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, the sons of Autolykos went out with their hounds hunting, and Odysseus went too.
De Rerum Natura
Dogs, both hunting hounds dreaming of the chase and dogs used as an example of the copulatory tie during mating.
Of house-bred whelps do feel the sudden urge
How often in the cross-roads dogs that pant
And hounds of huntsmen oft in soft repose